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Mental Health in the Workplace – How Can We Help?
“It is a weird time right now…” We hear this a lot lately - from rising prices of just about everything, to an over-capacity healthcare system, to the continued and lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a stressful time for all of us. In fact, according to...
Board Orientation Done Differently
If you’ve been on a Board, it’s likely that you’ve sat through a Board Orientation session, read a Board Orientation package or – worse, had no orientation at all. Most Board Orientations are nuts-and-bolts affairs, with a focus on the basics of the organization’s...
Managing ‘The People in Your Neighbourhood’ Around the Board Table
Like learning the Hungarian language or calming down an angry two-year-old, chairing or facilitating a Board meeting is hard. All groups have moods that are always changing, which directly impacts the level of productivity and accomplishment the group can achieve....
Ten Things Successful Leaders Do Well
Being a leader - of three people, a production shift, or a 10,000-person organization - is really hard. We work with leaders at all levels of organizations, and we have seen patterns and traits from the ones who are most successful. So, here are ten lessons from...
What Romance Novels Can Teach Us About Workplace Culture
During the pandemic, I rediscovered my teenage obsession with romance novels. I have a PhD in English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century love stories, but that was high-brow romance. What I was reading in 2020, on maternity leave with my second child...
What Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. Can Teach Us about Culture, Performance, and Innovation
Wait! If you’re looking at this meme and squinting your eyes and tilting your head to the left, or sliding your cursor towards the back button, let me explain. I recently came across Monsters, Inc. on Disney+, and revisiting this cherished childhood classic as an...
Navigating the Transition: How to Foster a Welcoming Work Culture
Change. What does this word mean to you? Is change a good or bad thing? There inevitably arrives a time in every individual’s career when they must confront change. For me, this happened recently. I graduated from university, returned home, and embarked on a fresh...
Build Capacity and Lead Your Team: How to Delegate Effectively
Have you ever led a team where it felt like you were doing all the work? Like you couldn’t focus on the bigger picture because you were always fighting fires and solving problems for your team? Or, maybe you have the opposite problem. Maybe you feel out of touch with...
Get the Little Things off Your “To Do” List
So a wheel broke off one of our office chairs - rendering the chair an occupational health and safety hazard. The result being that a perfectly good chair was taking up valuable space in our closet, with a "Broken! Do not sit on" message written in Sharpie on a piece...
What Everything Everywhere All at Once Can Teach Us about Strategy
I finally hopped on the bandwagon and watched the Oscar-winning film, Everything Everywhere All at Once. While this film made me think about a lot of things – about mother-daughter relationships, the multiverse, and hot-dog fingers (if you know, you know) – it also...
Why You Should Include a Competitive Analysis In Your Next Strategic Planning Process
A strategic plan tells your organization where you’re going in the next few years. Setting this course is one of the most important things you can do as a leader. But what about considering where your organization stands relative to competitors? Understanding the...
Planning for an Inclusive Future
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become integral to most organizations – but what does success look like for DEI-focused strategic plans? With all that has happened over the past few years, many leaders have made renewed commitments to a more DEI-centred...